Ma'an News Agency (MNA) (www.maannews.net) is a Palestinian online news agency that publishes up-to-the-minute news in Arabic, English and Hebrew. MNA began operations in January 2005 and is one of the main projects of Ma'an Network www.maannet.org.

Ma'an News Agency aims to offer to the Palestinian and international communities, independent and professional Palestinian news. In this way, MNA aims to promote democracy in Palestine through the media, and through encouraging freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and pluralism of the media. MNA also strives to increase Palestinian media credibility in the international scene by producing objective professional news.

Ma'an News Agency is known for being reliable, objective and balanced. It is committed to supplying 24-hour news in Arabic, English, and Hebrew for local, regional, and international readers and media professionals. MNA produces news items on political, social, economic, cultural, and sporting events taking place throughout Palestine accompanied by professional and high quality images. This full coverage is made possible due to MNA's network of highly qualified and enthusiastic correspondents and photographers located in the major cities of Palestine.

MNA offers its customers the opportunity to be constantly informed about events taking place in Palestine through its SMS breaking news service. This service is available to customers all over the world, regardless of the mobile operator. In addition, MNA provides a scrolling news bar that is displayed on Ma'an Network's ten TV stations.

Also, MNA offers professional and marketable images covering a variety of events in Palestine and the Middle East. These images are available for sale through the Ma'an Images online portal - www.maanimages.com - that contains thousands of images, increasing daily. Ma'an Images focuses on providing up-to-the-minute photographs of the highest quality covering political, sporting, cultural, religious and social events taking place in Palestine and throughout the Middle East region. Ma'an Images is staffed by highly trained and experienced professionals with a leading photojournalist team in each of the major cities in the Palestinian territories and beyond.

MNA is funded by the Royal Danish Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority & the Representative Office of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Palestinian Authority.